Words that carry you.
Author Kimberly D. Hightower on strength, surrender, and finding your way through every season.
CARRIED
Finding Strength Through Every Season of Life
You know what it's like to be the strong one — the woman everyone calls when they need something, who shows up for everyone else while quietly wondering who's showing up for her. CARRIED is not another book telling you to try harder. It's the honest, unflinching story of a military spouse who lost everything in a single morning in September 2016 — and discovered, in the wreckage, that she had never actually been carrying her life alone. You were never meant to carry it all. You were meant to be carried.
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CARRIED
"Some burdens change you. Others reveal your strength."
You know what it's like to be the strong one — the woman everyone calls when they need something, who shows up for everyone else while quietly wondering who's showing up for her. CARRIED is not another book telling you to try harder. It's the honest, unflinching story of a military spouse who lost everything in a single morning in September 2016 — and discovered, in the wreckage, that she had never actually been carrying her life alone. You were never meant to carry it all. You were meant to be carried.
- The woman who feels unseen
- The wife carrying more than she says out loud
- The veteran spouse who never had words for what deployment and homecoming cost
- The woman rebuilding after loss, wondering if her story still counts
- Release the exhaustion of performing strength you don't feel
- Name the loneliness of loving someone who came home changed
- Find the freedom that lives in surrender — not control
- Turn shame into testimony, and testimony into someone else's lifeline
"You were never meant to carry life by yourself. If your heart is grieving, or exhausted, or waiting for answers — know this with greater certainty than before: God knows. He sees every tear you have cried. He hears every prayer you have whispered. He has never looked away, and He has never stopped loving you."
01When Did You Become the Strong One?
02The Loneliness No One Talks About
03When God Is Working and You Cannot See It
04The Freedom Found in Surrender
05Walking Courageously Into Your Calling
06Standing Firm When the Journey Gets Hard
07Living Proof
08Faithful to the Finish
09The Legacy of the Carried Life
10Home at Last
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Read CARRIED to be encouraged, then work through the Companion Workbook to make the transformation your own. Frequently bought together.
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Begin with CARRIED to be encouraged, then work through the Companion Workbook to make the transformation your own. Both hardcovers, shipped together.
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